The People Disobeyed And Went to Egypt

Jeremiah 43:1–13
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Disobedience
Isn’t it strange after forty years or more of Jeremiah’s ministry of highest integrity, they dared to say, “You are telling a lie. God didn’t send you” (vv. 1-2). They justified it by blaming someone else. “Baruch did it” (v. 3). The flesh loves to transfer blame. So the people come down to Egypt despite the word of God (vv. 4-5). This people, who had been delivered from Egypt 900 years before the power of God, is now back in Egypt again, back in the land of bondage.

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah down in Egypt, at Tahpanhes (vv. 6-8). The word of God is never bound. The word comes to Jeremiah and tells him again to do one of those strange things which are graphic illustrations of truth. He is to take large stones and hide them in the mortar of the pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, as a testimony to the fact that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon would come down to Egypt and spread his royal canopy above these stones (vv. 9-10) . The thing they were trying to escape in Judah, they would find in Egypt. This people had a testimony that God would confirm his word to them. They would find in Egypt what they were fleeing from. Later the king will attack Egypt, kill many of its people, set its tempted on fire and either burn or carry off their idols (vv. 11-12). Then Nebuchadnezzar will pick the land clean, just like a shepherd picking the lice off his clothes and he will return safely home (v. 13).

Application

The people decided they were going to move to Egypt no mstter what God said. Lord help me to not be so determined to have my way that I go against God’s way for my life.

Jeremiah 43:1-13 (English Standard Version)


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